Presider: Pastor James Lee
Congregational Prayer: Pastor James Lee
Children's Catechism: Pastor James Lee
Ministry of the Word: Pastor James Lee
Ministry of the Lord’s Supper: the Session
Call to Worship - 1 Pet. 1:22-25
22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, 23 since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for
“All flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers,
and the flower falls,
25 but the word of the Lord remains forever.”
And this word is the good news that was preached to you.
Hymn of Adoration
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past - Trinity Hymnal (30)
Responsive Reading: Ps. 90 (pp. 816-817)
Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.
Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
You turn men back to dust, saying, "Return to dust, O sons of men."
For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.
You sweep men away in the sleep of death; they are like the new grass of the morning--
though in the morning it springs up new, by evening it is dry and withered.
We are consumed by your anger and terrified by your indignation.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
All our days pass away under your wrath;
we finish our years with a moan.
The length of our days is seventy years-- or eighty, if we have the strength;
yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
Who knows the power of your anger? For your wrath is as great as the fear that is due you.
Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Relent, O LORD! How long will it be? Have compassion on your servants.
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.
May your deeds be shown to your servants, your splendor to their children.
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us--
yes, establish the work of our hands.
Confession of Sin
Hymn of Assurance
God, in the Gospel of His Son - Trinity Hymnal (141)
Shepherd's Prayer
Children's Catechism
28. Did Adam keep the covenant of life?
No. He sinned against God.
29. What is sin?
Sin is any lack of conformity to, or transgression of, the law of God.
30. What is meant by lack of conformity?
Not being or doing what God requires.
Scripture Reading - Isa. 40:1-8
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord's hand
double for all her sins.
3 A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
6 A voice says, “Cry!”
And I said, “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass,
and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers, the flower fades
when the breath of the Lord blows on it;
surely the people are grass.
8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
Sermon - “The Withering Grass, the Fading Flower, and the Eternal Word”
The Lord’s Supper
Hymn of Gratitude and Offering
The Sands of Time Are Sinking - Trinity Hymnal (546)
Benediction
Doxology
Doxology - Trinity Hymnal (735)